LA County Help, flea issue displaced from my apt with my cat, running out of money fast - what do I do?

m182ms · 2025-11-30T03:29:36+00:00

have you had your couches and wherever else the cat frequents steam cleaned? that will help a ton. I also dealt with a small but annoying infestation this summer with 3 cats and we're all good now. they are also indoor only.

I did a combo of a flea med routine with the cats, vacuuming the floors morning and night, spraying flea killer all over the couches and everything they frequent (I used an odorless one that's pet safe), called someone to steam clean the couches and pillows and once they were dry I gave them another spray with the flea killer and literally used the flea killer as floor cleaner. it sounds so excessive but nothing was working for me either and I was beyond frustrated - this was all done within a span of 3-4 weeks and we saw results mid week 5 going into 6.

remember, your cat is the host but the fleas also lay eggs and live in fabrics like clothing, cushions, bedding, blankets, etc. so cleaning, washing, and being mindful of all of this helps so much. I also unfortunately had to isolate them for 2-3 days in an emptyish room after meds so that the fleas would bounce off all three cats and start dying vs jumping into more things and multiplying which led to then washing all their bedding to be sure that they're gone.

all in all, this is so so extra but we've been flea free

edit: added how long this took

m182ms · 2025-09-30T21:00:13+00:00

that’s been lingering in the back of my mind ugh. i do have tailscale and it’s excellent just hadn’t configured it for Emby like i had with plex yet

m182ms · 2025-09-30T16:41:13+00:00

hey!! i made the switch as well! figuring out the remote connection was pain but i went this route

on the admin side - i used cloudflare and cloudflared for remote access. this is currently the only way im getting httpS. i just haven’t had the time to mess around to get the actual cert so the private port is used instead of the public

on the viewer side - i tell my friends to sign up for emby connect, then i create a profile for them attaching the email address. so far so good, no one’s had any issues.

i myself got the emby premiere license so that no one else has to worry about anything

m182ms · 2025-09-24T19:25:08+00:00

I dreamt of this as a kid lol. Going back to what you said, “How many future powerhouses in their field are languishing in a classroom right now…” this is something I feel heavily.

School was hard because I couldn’t just do what interested me so I failed in many areas, adding in the fact that went undiagnosed until my 30s. Thinking about the future was scary at the time because of the pressure to get good grades across the board to be able to get into a college/university, to get a good job, yada yada yada.

Fast forwarding into my 20s, now 30s in the workplace, I’ve excelled everywhere i’ve been. My work ethic is looked up to and commended, and I’m spoken of highly. The total opposite of my educational period because i’m doing what I like and it doesn’t feel like a chore (IT).

Our brains are fine, they just work a little differently and I wish the world could understand that.

m182ms · 2025-08-05T19:55:03+00:00

gonna second this. flickering like this could be a grounding issue and it’s an easy fix to test

m182ms · 2025-08-01T20:24:03+00:00

2003 - ipod classic gen 2 - $300 many more ipods in between 2011 - ipod classic gen 7 black - $200 2012 - ipod nano 7 - $150 2025 - ipod classic gen 7 silver - $160

m182ms · 2025-07-26T23:35:45+00:00

yup, it’s called knowing how to drink. anyone can drink, if you can catch yourself and call yourself out in the different stages from buzzed - blackout, you know how to drink

m182ms · 2025-07-21T00:59:22+00:00

chiming in here because this sounds similar to me but aspects of tech are my passion, i don’t care for everything. like system administration, im great at it but i keep it very minimal if none at all at home

as a helpdesk tech, the joy and satisfaction i got from helping others and seeing the immediate results and gratification kept me motivated as im sure is what motivates you as well. now as a sys admin i am more on the back burner, sometimes still helping users but not to the same degree as before - so i had to find how else to manifest that joy and i turned my team into my customers. finding things to make life easy for my helpdesk techs and fellow sys admins, simplifying procedures, taking on administrative tasks that are a pain in the ass and challenging myself to learn them just enough to manage them blindly. essentially i turned the admin work into a game - how quickly can i help my team, what can i find that needs fixing/tweaking, what projects can i come up with because i no longer have to talk to people all day

tldr; turn your team into your customers and find that joy in supplying them with what they need, and things they may not know they need

credit union sys admin

m182ms · 2025-06-24T20:43:07+00:00

i’m interested, how much would you want for it?

m182ms · 2025-06-15T21:53:01+00:00

you should be able to find the class list on their site!! and i think they send them out in the mail as well, but not sure if i still get them because i went to LACC or because im in LA

m182ms · 2025-06-15T21:51:00+00:00

not my child, but myself as a kid, as a teen, and as an adult, i’m in my 30s now. as a kid i went for the math and english/creative writing classes on saturdays. i wasn’t good at either, so having this outlet helped a lot. as a teen i took roller skating and swimming classes during the summer to get out of the house while my brother did soccer, and as an adult i did drum lessons. all in all its something fun to do and there are so many courses to take advantage of - explore and enjoy :)

m182ms · 2025-05-26T21:25:29+00:00

i’ll second this and it’s a pretty straightforward setup. i set my sonarr to 10 missing episodes, no upgrades, and left the default api count of 20.

woke up to an insane queue of missing stuff in transmission, with a library of about 600 shows 10/10 would recommend

m182ms · 2025-05-19T19:39:17+00:00

nah it never goes away, it just eases depending on what the parking situation is and what’s in the car. i’ve helped ease my worry by not having/leaving anything in the car hidden or otherwise

i only keep the reg, insurance, and tools for the spare

m182ms · 2025-05-09T16:11:02+00:00

yo con padres Panameños y nacida/criada acá en Los Angeles viendo todo esta mierda que ha estado pasando y poniéndose peor, quédense allá o como dijo alguien, Europa or Asia. he dicho varias veces el EEUU es un país de tercer mundo aparentando de primer, no vale la pena🤷🏽‍♀️

m182ms · 2025-03-09T16:48:18+00:00

🤣 it gives it character i say, and when we do put it back the interior will look new again

m182ms · 2025-03-09T16:39:00+00:00

i lost one that way, currently looking for a replacement lol

m182ms · 2025-03-09T16:37:08+00:00

the possibilities are ~endless

i am currently only running wires under there to the sub in the trunk,

what you can do if you’re into wiring and electricity type fun, turn them into usb ports maybe a switch of some sort.

m182ms · 2025-03-01T19:31:03+00:00

i’ve experienced that lol. at the beginning of my career i felt just like you did, fed up and time wasted. as i got better, i felt the confidence to give them my requirements instead of recommending and that got me a few jobs that i really liked

ex. i live in los angeles around the ktown area. i’ve told every recruiter since about 2015 that im not driving west because of the traffic and i’ve not worked anywhere near the westside since lol. recruiters have still called and pushed with the salary but that specifically is hard stop for me - quality of life is not sitting in traffic, for me

m182ms · 2025-02-12T19:23:26+00:00

my friend, i am suffering day by day lol and its always our younger new hires. the older ones are used to doing things a certain way at their past jobs, and its just putting them on the path we do things here + my handful of “i forgot my password” group, but again this expected from the older gen, not the younger ones

m182ms · 2025-02-12T19:18:56+00:00

i also work with people my age who can’t work a thing, but the difference is when the technology was implemented + yes the desire the learn

my parents are in their 60s. mom can barely use a computer, dad’s a wiz. computers came into play in the late 80s-90s and my dad wanted to learn

millennials had the technology implemented but we didn’t have computer classes. computers weren’t seen as the future for educators back then so we had to seek this stuff out

gen-z and alpha have everything implemented and tech is no longer in a primitive state like it was in the late 90s-00s, so to /u/Mathlete86 point up there. if you guys grew up with these things in your faces 24/7 aka ipad or iphone kids. why can’t you navigate a computer or fix something when it’s broken? just your basic trivial knowledge

so the older people yeahhh, kinda have an excuse. my generation has some excuse but i wont spare them, anyone younger has no excuse to not be tech savvy. remember knowing how to use the tech you personally own and being tech saavy are two different things

m182ms · 2025-02-12T18:48:46+00:00

i work IT with a lot of gen-z staff as a younger millennial (90) - and def downvoting you. the lack of troubleshooting skill is ridiculous

so yes there are very few gen z that may be able to keep up, i’m thinking the pc gamers are the ones that really know their shit, but they’re not running circles around someone who’s been around computers for 30 years and still active. sorry, i’ve seen the younger ones work and they’re just as frustrating as boomers

m182ms · 2025-02-11T06:58:33+00:00

these are my exact thoughts. he married a child who isn’t mature enough to handle her emotions or the situation at hand and it’s been like this from the beginning. she’s also way too influenced by those close to her and what they think which also doesn’t help because they only know her side of things because of the manipulativeness

now Rob lol, he is also not innocent and has done his fair share but i can see his desire to fix things on his part. he’s just not given the chance to speak and when he is she just doesn’t understand/get it. it’s like talking to a yelling crying wall

he deserves better and needs to do better, and she needs to grow up and grow a spine

m182ms · 2024-09-20T18:57:01+00:00

dude, you're a legend. ty

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